Congratulations to Joey Del Ponte for being accepted into Suffolk University’s elite honors program. Joey, son of Cathy and Jimmy Del Ponte, will be graduating from Matignon High School in May. 
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Looking for an opportunity to break out of the winter blues and get back into the community? Join the City of Somerville, Groundwork Somerville, and Comcast Cares for the annual Spring Cleanup and Community Barbecue on Saturday, April 26 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. A rain date has been set for Sunday, April 27.
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Jon Garelick is a freelance writer living in Somerville, MA. He writes about music (jazz in particular) and arts and culture in general, including books, TV, movies, art, and theater. He was an editor at the Boston Phoenix for 22 years, until its closure in March 2013. Currently he writes for the Boston Globe, DownBeat, Jazziz, and other publications. He has also written for the New York Times and New York Times Book Review, and Rolling Stone. He has won two ASCAP-Deems Taylor Awards – in 1993 – for his writing about music. You can find a link to his archive of his work for the Boston Phoenix and other information on his blog jongarelick.com. He also contributes to the local Web site The Arts Fuse.
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Marc Zegans, a poet and creative development advisor based in Santa Cruz California remembers Somerville fondly. He’s recently completed, Lyon Street, a collection of poems about San Francisco during his coming of age in the late seventies and early eighties. Ephemere, a sense memory from Alphabet City on the cusp of gentrification, stumbles on a cornet’s chorus blowing through a tenement window.
Flags around the city were at half-mast Tuesday in honor of the victim’s of the Boston Marathon bombings on the one-year anniversary. Trauma counselors will be available to residents at the Public Safety Building from 3–6 p.m. this Friday (April 18). Community members are also welcome to visit the site for reflection, remembrances or memorials in honor of Sean Collier and other individuals and families affected by the events in the aftermath of the bombings.
Mayor Joseph Curtatone’s brother, 43-year-old Cosmo Curtatone, will be in Malden District Court Thursday morning for a dangerousness hearing stemming from charges he assaulted and attempted to rape a women well known to him earlier this month. According to police, the woman has already taken out more than a dozen restraining orders against him.
Curtatone was arrested on a warrant April 8 in Somerville for the incidents the victim alleges occurred at her Everett apartment April 3, which she reported to police April 5. He is also accused of assault and larceny over $250 for allegedly stealing the woman’s phone and wallet and then using her EBT card.
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Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone has filed a proposed expansion of the city’s ethics ordinance that would require elected officials to file disclosures of their communications with any person or representative seeking a permit or license from the city in connection with the permit or license.
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On the first weekend in May, over 400 Somerville artists will open their doors and invite the public into their studios for one of the largest single-weekend open studio events in the nation.
Now in its 16th year, the weekend continues to grow throughout the city, drawing in scores of local businesses and becoming a festive destination. In the US, only New York has more artists per capita than the City of Somerville.
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— Photo by Bobbie Toner
Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone announced today the City of Somerville’s plan to honor the victims and families of the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombings, and to provide support services to all community members who should need them on the one-year anniversary of the tragic events in Boston, as follows:
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